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December 2012

Safety and New Year’s Eve Party Planning

Safety and New Year’s Eve Party Planning 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Many people are aware that New Year’s Eve is the number one drunk-driving night of the year. One way to avoid the problem is to host a New Year’s Eve…

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Highway Deaths Rise For First Time In Six Years

Highway Deaths Rise For First Time In Six Years 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Advancements in safety technology, awareness campaigns, changes in the law, and increased enforcement have been credited with the steady decline in highway fatalities over recent years. The data from the…

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Computer Mistakes In Digital Records Can Be Catastrophic

Computer Mistakes In Digital Records Can Be Catastrophic 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

By law, hospitals are required to report medical mistakes that result in a medical malpractice judgment or settlement. When it comes to faulty electronic records and mistakes caused by medical…

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Unintentional Drowning Deaths And Young Children

Unintentional Drowning Deaths And Young Children 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Accidents happen. While that saying may always be true, it does not excuse us from taking steps to reduce preventable deaths. According to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Florida has…

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More Problems For NECC Spinal Injection Patients

More Problems For NECC Spinal Injection Patients 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Thousands of patients were put at risk when they received contaminated steroid injections produced by the New England Compounding Center. Hundreds contracted fungal meningitis from the injections of methylprednisolone acetate…

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Dirty Needles And Medical Malpractice

Dirty Needles And Medical Malpractice 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

A review conducted by the USA Today reveals that dangerous injection practices have been tied to numerous outbreaks of disease and bacterial infection throughout the nation. Studies have shown that…

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World Trade Center And Exposure To Carcinogens

World Trade Center And Exposure To Carcinogens 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

The World Trade Center bombing was an unprecedented event that claimed more than 2,700 lives that day and affected countless others. The full cost of that attack may still be…

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A New Focus On Sepsis Cases Follows Tragic Death

A New Focus On Sepsis Cases Follows Tragic Death 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Sepsis is a leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals. Part of the problem in treating or preventing sepsis is that the early signs of the ailment are similar to…

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Prescribing Sleeping Aid Comes With Risks In Hospital Setting

Prescribing Sleeping Aid Comes With Risks In Hospital Setting 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Falls are a serious problem in hospitals and nursing homes. According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, a drug commonly given to inpatients in American hospitals increases the…

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‘Never Events’ Not As Rare As They Sound

‘Never Events’ Not As Rare As They Sound 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

A ‘never events’ are medical mistakes that should never happen, according to all medical professionals. These medical mistakes should never occur if the professionals involved take proper care and precautions…

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Database Helps Make Florida Roads Safer

Database Helps Make Florida Roads Safer 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

A data collection tool known as Signal Four is helping law enforcement officials, as well as traffic engineers, planners, emergency medical providers and others pinpoint problem areas where accidents are…

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Teen Discusses The Dangers Of Texting And Driving

Teen Discusses The Dangers Of Texting And Driving 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Zachary Abraham is reminded every day of the cost of texting and driving. The car accident he suffered in July 2010 broke his jaw, shattered his heel bone, put him…

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Texting A Larger Problem Than Most Parents Realize

Texting A Larger Problem Than Most Parents Realize 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

A new study conducted by Toyota Motor Corp. and the University of Michigan indicates that parents do not understand the extent to which their teens are texting and driving. The…

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Security And Premises Liability Tested In Airport Tragedy

Security And Premises Liability Tested In Airport Tragedy 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

A 16-year-old North Carolina teen ran away from home in November of 2010. The next day, his body was found in a suburb of Boston. The boy apparently made his…

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Event Data Recorders Could Become Mandatory In New Cars

Event Data Recorders Could Become Mandatory In New Cars 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Starting in 1999, General Motors began installing event data recorders, commonly known as black boxes, into specific models. The black boxes would collect information about how the vehicle was operated…

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Preventing Falls For Older Americans

Preventing Falls For Older Americans 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Getting older is a challenging and sometimes harrowing experience. For Americans over the age of 65, falls are the top cause of deadly injury and hospitalization. Data collected by the…

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Safety Program Focusing On Birth Injuries Proves Effective

Safety Program Focusing On Birth Injuries Proves Effective 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

Millions of babies are born in U.S. hospitals every year. In roughly 9 percent of these births, something goes wrong. In those cases, a full 30 percent involve an avoidable…

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Construction Accident Near UCF Injures Four

Construction Accident Near UCF Injures Four 150 150 Panter, Panter & Sampedro

The University of Central Florida is adding a 600 bed housing facility. The site of that facility saw a serious construction accident this week, as a concrete slab fell over…

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